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Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

20th

 Chief Justice of Pakistan

Incumbent

Assumed office22 March 2009

Preceded by Abdul Hameed Dogar 

In office30 June 2005 – 3 November 2007

(deposed Nov 3, 2007 - Mar 22, 2009)

Preceded by   Nazim Hussain Siddiqui

Succeeded by Abdul Hameed Dogar (De facto)

Justice Supreme Court

In officeFebruary 4, 2000 – June 29, 2005

Nominated by Mohammad Rafiq Tarar 

Chief Justice Balochistan High Court

In officeApril 22, 1999 – February 3, 2000

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Nominated by Mohammad Rafiq Tarar 

Preceded by Amirul Mulk 

Succeeded by Javaid Iqbal

Justice Balochistan High Court

In office November 6, 1990 – April 21, 1999

Born12 December 1948 (1948-12-12)(age 61)Quetta, Pakistan

Nationality Pakistani

Religion Islam

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (born 12 December 1948 in Quetta) is the current Chief  Justice of Pakistan. He was appointed as Chief Justice by Pakistani President  Gen.  Pervez Musharraf on May 7, 2005.[1]. He was suspended by President General Musharraf on March 9,2007, when he refused to oblige Musharraf by refusing to resign. After having been elected asPresident for second term by the Parliament, Musharraf in November 2007 pre-empted animpending court decision against his re-election and suspended the constitution and declared a 

state of emergency.[2] Justice Chaudhry convened a seven-member bench which issued an interimorder against this action.[3]

In March 2009, the Lawyers supported by various political parties, started a decisive movementto reinstate Chaudhry Iftikhar and other deposed Judges. A long march from all over the countrywas declared soon after. Finally, the government reinstated Chaudhry Iftikhar and other deposedJudges on 16 March 2009 through an executive order by the President of Pakistan[4][5].

Contents• 1 Early life

• 2 Career in Law

• 3 Suspension and Reinstatement, 2007

• 4 2007 State of Emergency

• 5 Reinstatement, 2008-09

• 6 Important Considered Rulings

○ 6.1 Pre 2007-08 Judgements

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6.1.1 Validation of Musharraf Military Rule

6.1.2 Pakistan Steel Mills Privatization

6.1.3 Hasba Bill case

6.1.4 Missing people

6.1.5 Other 

○ 6.2 Post Reinstatement(2009) Judgments

6.2.1 Constitution Petition Regarding PCO Judges

• 7 Controversies

○ 7.1 Oath on PCO 1999

○ 7.2 Supreme Court Validation of General Musharraf's Military Coup

○ 7.3 Dismissal of petition challenging Legal Framework Order (LFO) 2002

○ 7.4 Judgement on 17th Amendment and President's Uniform Case 2005

○ 7.5 Son Admission In FIA

○ 7.6 Confusion between Dejure & Defacto

• 8 Awards and honors

○ 8.1 Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom

○ 8.2 National Law Journal Lawyer of the Year 

○ 8.3 New York City Bar Honorary Membership

• 9 See also

• 10 References

• 11 External links

Early lifeIftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was born on 12 December 1948 (1948-12-12) (age 61) in Queeta,Pakistan. Chaudhry belongs to the Ghorewaha clan of Muslim Rajputs. His father migrated toand permanently settled in Quetta, Balochistan, where Chaudhry grew up.

Career in LawChaudhry has a Bachelors in Arts and Bachelors in Law (LLB) from Jamshoro-Sindh.[6]. He joined the bar in 1974. Later, he was enrolled as Advocate of the High Court in 1976 and as anAdvocate of the Supreme Court in 1985.[6]. In 1989 he was appointed as Advocate General,Balochistan.[6]. He was elevated as Additional Judge, Balochistan High Court on 6 November 1990 until 21 April 1999.[6]. On April 22, 1999 he became Chief Justice of Balochistan HighCourt. Besides remaining as Judge of High Court, he discharged duties as Banking Judge, JudgeSpecial Court for Speedy Trials, Judge Customs Appellate Courts as well as Company Judge.Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also remained President of High Court Bar Association,Quetta, and was elected twice as Member of the Bar Council. In 1992 he was appointed asChairman of Balochistan Local Council Election Authority and thereafter for second term in

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1998. He also worked as Chairman, Provincial Review Board for the province of Balochistanand was twice appointed as Chairman of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society, Balochistan.[6].

On February 4, 2000 he was nominated Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan. On June 30, 2005he became the Chief Justice of Pakistan.[6]. At present, Justice Iftikhar is also functioning asChairman, Enrollment Committee of Pakistan Bar Council and as Chairman, Supreme Court

Building Committee.[6]

Suspension and Reinstatement, 2007Main articles:  Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (suspension)and  Lawyers' Movement 

On March 9, 2007, Chaudhry was suspended by Pakistani President  Pervez Musharraf .Musharraf also filed a Presidential reference against Chaudhry for misconduct.

It was the first time in the 60-year history of the Pakistani Supreme Court that a Chief Justice was suspended. The suspension was made on the grounds of complaints against Chief JusticeChaudhry for violating the norms of judicial propriety, corruption, seeking favours andmisbehaving with senior lawyers. He was also accused of interfering in the working of theexecutive branch.

After his suspension, there was unrest in the country with regard to the validity of the allegationsagainst Chaudhry, as well as doubt as to whether Musharraf technically had the power to suspendthe Chief Justice under the circumstances.[7]

On May 5, 2007, Chaudhry with his counsel and politician friend Atizaz Ahsan, who is also the party member of the PPP, traveled from Islamabad to Lahore to address the Lahore High CourtBar Association. Demonstrations of support along the route slowed his motorcade to the pointthat it took him 25 hours to reach the dinner the association was holding in his honor. [8]

Demonstrators chanted slogans supporting Chaudhry and demanding Musharraf to step down. Inhis speech he criticized dictatorship and emphasized the importance of the rule of law thereby politicizing the office of Chief Justice.[9]

On July 20, 2007, Chaudhry was reinstated to his position as Chief Justice in a ruling by thethirteen-member bench of Pakistani Supreme Court headed by Justice Khalil ur RehmanRamday. He was represented by Aitzaz Ahsan, Shahid Saeed, Gohar Khan and Nadeem Ahmed[PLD 2007 SC 578] against 16 senior lawyers representing the Federation. The ruling combined25 constitutional petitions filed by various parties, but referred most of the issues raised by the24 petitions not filed by Chaudhry himself to lower courts for extended adjudication. All thirteenof the sitting justices agreed that Musharraf's action had been illegal, and ten of the thirteenordered Chaudhry was to be reinstated and that he "shall be deemed to be holding the said officeand shall always be deemed to have been so holding the same."

2007 State of Emergency

Main article: 2007 Pakistani state of emergencyOn Saturday, Nov 3, 2007, General Pervez Musharraf, who was the President and Chief of ArmyStaff of Pakistan at the time, declared a state of emergency and suspended the nation'sconstitution and parliament at the same time. The declaration accused the judges of violatingarticle 209 of the Constitution of 1973.[10].

Further, according to the constitution, the state of emergency only suspends certain fundamentalrights of citizens and all other structures and functions of the state remain functioning as normal, but through this proclamation the government had suspended the constitution itself in accordance

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with Supreme Court' decision rendered in Zafar Ali Shah's case and issued a provisionalconstitution order (PCO) in its place. Such an action was considered legal by Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the aforesaid case.

After the imposition of emergency and suspension of constitution, Chaudhry constituted aneight-member bench of Supreme Court judges duly headed by himself, and in utter violation of 

Zafar Ali Shah's case immediately quashed the provisional constitution order, declaration of emergency and the suspension of the constitution, and ordered all civil and military personnel toignore the order. He also ordered all the chief justices of high courts and judges of the SupremeCourt and High Court not to take oath under the PCO whereas he himself had taken oath under asimilar PCO earlier.

On 15 November  Geo News reported that Chaudhry had ordered the Islamabad Inspector  General of Police to take action against his and his family’s house arrest and their possiblerelocation to Quetta. According to the channel, Chaudhry held the interior secretary, thecommissioner, the deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioner responsible for hishouse arrest. He said he was still the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the official residence was his by right.[11]

Reinstatement, 2008-09Just after general elections in February, on March 24, 2008, on his first day of  premiership thePakistani PM Yousaf Raza Gillani ordered Chaudhry's release from house arrest.[12][13] However,he did not restore the chief justice. Later three agreements for the restoration of the judges weresigned by Asif Ali Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Nawaz Sharif, thechairman of the PML-N, the chief opposition party. But the chief justice remained unrestored.This led to a revival of the lawyers movement for the restoration of judges.

In October 2008, Chaudhry visited the Supreme Court building.

The Lawyers' Movement announced a "long march" for the restoration of the judges, especiallyChief Justice Iftikhar from 12 to 16 March 2009. The government of Pakistan refused to reinstate

the judges and declared section 144 in effect in three of the four provinces of Pakistan therebyforbidding any form of gatherings of the "long march". Arrangements were made to block allroads and other means of transport to prevent the lawyers from reaching the federal capital,Islamabad. Workers of the main political parties in opposition and the lawyers movement as wellas other known persons from the civil society were arrested. Despite these efforts, the movementcontinued and was able to break through the blockade in Lahore en route to Islamabad in thenight between 15 and 16 March 2009. A few hours later, on the morning of March 16, 2009, the prime minister of Pakistan restored Chaudhary Iftikahar as chief justice of Pakistan through anexecutive order.[14] after which the opposition agreed to stop the "long march".

Important Considered Rulings

Pre 2007-08 JudgementsValidation of Musharraf Military Rule

On April 13, 2005, in the "Judgment on 17th Amendment and President's Uniform Case", JusticeIftikhar Chaudhry was one of 5 Supreme Court judges who dismissed all petitions challengingPresident Musharraf's consistitutional amendments. In a wide ranging judgement they declaredthat the Legal Framework Order (LFO) instituted by General Musharraf after his suspension of the constitution, the 17th amendment which gave this constitutional backing, and the two offices

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 bill which allowed Musharraf to retain his military uniform whilst being President were all legal because the Parliament had approved the amendments.

Pakistan Steel Mills Privatization

Main article: Pakistan Steel Mills

In 2007, the Supreme court ruled against the government, saying that the selling of PakistanSteel Mills to a group including Arif Habib, former client and friend of PM Shaukat Aziz, wasdone in "indecent haste".

Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry administers the oath of office to President PervezMusharraf, upon the beginning of Musharraf's second term.

Hasba Bill case

Main article:  Hasba bill 

The Hasba bill also proposed powers for the police to ensure observance of Islamic practices andvalues while curbing   palm reading and other  superstitious customs deemed un-Islamic by thelegislators. General Pervez Musharraf  petitioned the top court for an opinion after the Hasba billwas passed through North West Frontier Province's assembly. "The governor of the province of 

 NWFP may not assent to the Hasba bill in its present form," Chief Justice Iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry, head of a panel of nine judges, told the court before listing several clauses in the billdeemed unconstitutional.

Missing people

Many people in Pakistan had been allegedly kidnapped by the American agencies (FBI, CIA)and Pakistani agencies in pursuance of the "War on Terror." These actions were challenged inthe Supreme Court and a bench under the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took upthe case. The complainants in the matter headed by Ms Amina Masood Janjua representing 254missing persons and their families pleaded that the persons concerned be presented in front of amagistrate in line with the law and be given a trial. The case is being pleaded by Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim and Asma Jahangir from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.[citation needed ]

Other

Some very important cases were heard in the supreme court in the 2007. Decisions have already been taken in some:

• The case whether   Nawaz Sharif (twice the former PM of Pakistan) could come back toPakistan. Decision: Sharif can come back.[15]

• The case on whether or not the President Pervez Musharraf could run in the election for the next Presidency term.

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Post Reinstatement(2009) Judgments

Constitution Petition Regarding PCO Judges

The decision of the court in CONSTITUTION PETITION NO. 08 and 09 OF 2009 from 14member bench headed by Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, summarily removed all justices of higher judiciary who were not part of it as on November 2, 2007. There removal was so orderedon ground that advice of de-jure Chief Justice of Supreme Pakistan was not obtained in thesecases. In the same decision the court had held the de-jure Chief Justice between the period of  November 3, 2007 and March 22, 2009 was Justice Chaudhry.

There were three groups of these removed justices.

• Those who were elevated to higher courts and initially took oath on PCO.

• Those who were elevated to higher courts after restoration of constitution, and wereappointed by General Pervez Musharraf.

• Those who were elevated to higher courts after restoration of constitution, and wereappointed by Asif Ali Zardari.

This decision have resulted in situation where:•   Newly appointed justices who never took any sort of oath on any PCO have been

removed.

• Sitting justices who took oath on PCO 2007 are still acting as justices, though their casesare to be sent to Supreme Judicial Council.

• Sitting justices who accepted reappointed and took oath from Justice Dogar as still actingas justices of court with no action.

• Justices who took oath on PCO of 1999 are still functioning as justices of higher  judiciary.

ControversiesOath on PCO 1999

In January 2000, Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry then a serving judge on the Balochistan High Court(BHC) was one of the first judges to take an oath on the PCO. This allowed him to be elevated tothe Supreme Court to fill one of the vacancies left by the 11 judges who had resigned in protestat taking this oath.

Supreme Court Validation of General Musharraf's Military Coup

In May 2000 Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was one of the 12 judges of the Supreme Court benchwhich reviewed and endorsed the legality of General Musharraf’s military coup d’état. It alsoallowed General Musharraf to make amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan to fulfill his

 purpose.[16]

Dismissal of petition challenging Legal Framework Order (LFO) 2002

Just prior to the holding of the October 2002 General Elections a five member bench theSupreme Court of Pakistan that Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was a member of dismissed a petitionwhich challenged the promulgation of the Legal Framework Order(LFO)2002 by Chief Executive and President General Pervez Musharraf. Under the LFO General Musharraf announced amendments to the constitution which restored executive powers to the President,

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including the right to dismiss the National Assembly, appoint Governors and Service Chiefs andcreated a National Security Council (NSC).[17]

Judgement on 17th Amendment and President's Uniform Case 2005

On April 13, 2005, in the "Judgment on 17th Amendment and President's Uniform Case", JusticeIftikhar Chaudhry was one of 5 Supreme Court judges who dismissed all petitions challengingPresident Musharraf's consistitutional amendments. In a wide ranging judgement they declaredthat the Legal Framework Order (LFO) instituted by General Musharraf after his suspension of the constitution, the 17th amendment which gave this constitutional backing, and the two offices bill which allowed Musharraf to retain his military uniform whilst being President were all legal because the Parliament had approved the amendments.[18]

Son Admission In FIA

Ansar Abbasi   brought forth allegations against Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhray for grossmisconduct in 2002, accusing him for admitting his Son Dr. Arsalan to FIA undermining allmerits.[19]

Confusion between Dejure & Defacto

There have been several instances where certain people have marked and/or referred to thecurrent Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar as the Defacto Chief Justice of Pakistan,and referred to Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the legal and/or current Chief Justice of Pakistan.

Justice Dogar was to the position of Chief Justice of Pakistan on 3 November 2007 and he wasoffered to take an oath on the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) which replaced theConstitution like Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who took a similar oath on the PCO in 2000 andwas elevated to the Chief Justice position. The oaths taken by Chief Justice Iftikhar however,were accorded constitutional status under the 17th Constitutional Amendment passed by parliament of Pakistan on 29 December 2004. Such ratification is yet to be accorded to oathstaken by Justice Dogar.

As with Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Dogar later took a fresh oath according to article178 of the Constitution on 15 November 2007, thus making him the legal and dejure Chief Justice of Pakistan. Under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan a state of emergency can only be declared by the president. Instead of the president the emergency wasdeclared by the army chief, the actions of Gen. Musharraf were illegal.

On 30 July 2009, a 14 member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that all the judgeswho had taken an oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), were removed fromoffice and are now facing the Supreme Judicial Council. Two days later an ordinance signed byPresident Asif Ali Zardari officially removed all PCO judges from office.[20]

Awards and honorsHarvard Law School Medal of Freedom

In the wake of the imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan, on November 14, 2007, the Harvard Law School[21]  decided to award its highest honour, the Medal of Freedom, to Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, following the military crackdown the previous week. He becomes the first Pakistanito be presented with such honour.

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Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry formally received the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedomduring his visit to the United States in November, 2008.[22]

National Law Journal Lawyer of the Year

The National Law Journal picked Mr. Chaudhry as the lawyer of the year for 2007.

New York City Bar Honorary MembershipThe Association of the Bar of the City of New York granted Mr. Chaudhry an honorarymembership in the association on Nov. 17, 2008, recognizing him as a "symbol of the movementfor judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan."

See also• Chief Justice of Pakistan

• Supreme Court of Pakistan

• Movement for Rule of Law

• List of Pakistanis

• Syed Hammad Raza

• Ali Ahmad Kurd

• Aitzaz Ahsan

• Muneer A. Malik 

• Hamid Khan

• Athar Minallah

• Lawyers' Movement

• Jamshed Dasti

References1. ^ "Chaudhry Iftikhar named new CJ". May 7, 2005. http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/08/top4.htm.

2. ^ "Musharraf Suspends Pakistan's Constitution". November 4, 2007.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/03/world/main3448594.shtml?source=mostpop_story. 

3. ^ "Justice Iftikhar declared proclamation of emegency, suspension of constitution and provisional constitution order illegeal, PCO". November 4, 2007. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp? page=2007%5C11%5C04%5Cstory_4-11-2007_pg7_3. 

4. ^ "Govt issues notifications for restoration of judges". WExpose; http://wexpose.org.+March 18,2009. http://wexpose.org/news/index.php/world-news/95-govt-issues-notifications-for-restoration-of-judges-. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

5. ^ Sarah Hasan (March 18, 2009). "Govt issues notifications for restoration of judges". AllVoices;http://www.allvoices.com/. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2755007-pakistan-government-issues-notification-of-judges-restortation. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

6. ^ a b c d  e  f    g  Supreme Court of Pakistan Official Website

7. ^ "Suspended Pak CJ arrives in Karachi amid violence and tight security". Daily India. May 12,2007. http://www.dailyindia.com/show/140656.php/Suspended-Pak-CJ-arrives-in-Karachi-amid-violence-and-tight-security.

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8. ^ States cannot survive under dictatorship: CJ, May 7, 2007. DAWN Newspaper. AccessedAugust 27, 2007.

9. ^ YouTube - Chief Justic of Pakistan blasts 'dictators' 

10.^ "Text of Pakistan emergency declaration".   BBC News. November 3, 2007.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7077136.stm. Retrieved January 5, 2010.

11.^ Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

12.^ Hussain, Zahid (March 25, 2008). "Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry freed as Pakistan embraces democracy". The Times (London).http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3613791.ece. Retrieved May 5, 2010.

13.^ "Pakistani lawyers fete Chaudhry".   BBC News. March 31, 2008.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7323335.stm. Retrieved May 5, 2010.

14.^ "Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to be restored as Chief Justice of Pakistan". Geo.tv. 2008-11-15.http://www.geo.tv/3-16-2009/37454.htm.Retrieved 2008-11-15.

15.^ Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

16.^ http://www.merip.org/mer/mer251/munir.html

17.^http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/web/user_files/File/JR_Judgment_on_Legal_Framework_Order  _2002.pdf ,

18.^http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/web/user_files/File/JR_Judgment_on_17th_Amendmend_and_ Presidents_Uniform_Case.pdf 

19.^ http://pakistaniat.com/2007/03/13/pakistan-wasi-zafar-voice-america-interview-news-ansar-abassi-law-minister-supreme-court/

20.^ http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/07-Text-of-Supreme-Court-judgment-ha-04

21.^ "HLS News: Pakistani chief justice to receive Harvard Law School 'Medal of Honour'".  November 14, 2007. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2007/11/13_pakistan.php. 

22.^ Pakistan's Chief Justice receives Medal of Freedom in the  Harvard Law Record , 20 November 2008

External links• Movement for Rule of Law, Related to Lawyers Movement Pakistan.

• Read Articles & Urdu Columns dedicated or written for CJP Iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry & Lawyers Movement

• Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's Updated News and Photos

• Documentary on Judicial Struggle by Pakistani Lawyers Aaj Television• Former Pak’s CJI family sets Free to Move

• Justice Courageous By Syed Talat Hussain

•  Nine Notes on the Pakistan Chief Justice Story

• Pakistan: A consolidated site / blog containing links to different news about Chief Justiceof Pakistan's Crisis

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• Government Reaction to Lawyer's Protests on CJ Removal

• Daily Times Report on Missing Person Case

• CJP Profile on SCP Official Website

• Pakistani chief justice to receive Harvard Law School 'Medal of Freedom' 

• Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary to receive Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom• Democracy & Freedom - blogspot

Legal offices

Preceded byNazim Hussain Siddiqui

Chief Justice of Pakistan2005–2007

Succeeded byAbdul Hameed DogarDe facto

Preceded byAbdul Hameed DogarDe facto

Chief Justice of Pakistan2009 - Present

Succeeded byIncumbent

Chief Justices of  Pakistan

Democratic Period (1947–1958) Rashid · Munir 

Military rule (1958–1971) Munir · Shahabuddin · Cornelius · S. A. Rahman · Akbar 

Democratic Period (1971–1977) H. Rahman · Yakub Ali

Military rule (1977–1988) Haq · Haleem

Democratic period (1988–1999) Zullah · Shah ·  Jan · Ali Shah · Mian · S. Siddiqui

Military rule (2000–2008)Khan ·  Jehangiri ·  Ahmad ·   N. Siddiqui ·  Chaudhry ·

Dogar (De facto)

Democratic period (2008– Present) Dogar (De facto) · Chaudhry